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Dead birds and fish

Jan 03, 2011 19:50

Pictures: Birds Fall From Sky in ArkansasMore than 3,000 red-winged blackbirds mysteriously tumbled dead from the Arkansas sky on New Year's Eve, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission told the Associated Press. (Visit National Geographic's backyard birding central ( Read more... )

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ofstarstuff January 4 2011, 03:14:10 UTC

Why hello, Dr. Molly Caffrey, fancy seeing you here... CDC, isn't it?

underlankers January 4 2011, 03:17:38 UTC

When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hell was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

ofstarstuff January 4 2011, 03:19:13 UTC

You start going religious on me, and I'll find lettuce with human teeth in your backyard.

mountain_hiker January 4 2011, 03:20:58 UTC

LMAO

underlankers January 4 2011, 03:25:16 UTC

I just thought it was an appropriate quotation given that it is a pestilence of *some* sort. Quoting the Bible no more makes one religious than going into a garage makes a person an automobile.

ofstarstuff January 4 2011, 03:33:13 UTC

I didn't mean to be offensive, sorry if it came across as such.

My reference was rather obscure, and pestilence wasn't quite involved, as the CDC is only one of the many covers used by agents in the Threshold series (the show I linked to). There is an episode about religious revelations (which the viewer recognizes as having an alien source) and they later find mutant lettuce with human teeth on the priest's lovely backyard.

underlankers January 4 2011, 03:34:19 UTC

Nah, I also hoped I didn't come across as creepy fundie guy on the Internet talking about the End of the World. This sounds more like Nurgle's schtick than it does Jesus's.

ofstarstuff January 4 2011, 03:37:44 UTC

Sometimes I worry, being an atheist with feet firmly planted on my sciences.

But then Nurgle comes by and I worry further.

That aside, you didn't, otherwise I wouldn't joke about it ;) Especially when that quote reminds me so much of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

underlankers January 4 2011, 03:39:52 UTC

Oh, good, then. :-).

ofstarstuff January 4 2011, 03:20:18 UTC

Geekish comments aside, the Birdchick talks about it. Without aliens (bah!).

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